About the book: 2005 / In 1212, the first military clash between the Russians and the new enemy of Rus' - the crusaders. The united fifteen thousand Novgorod-Polotsk army, led by the then Novgorod prince Mstislav the Udal, made the first campaign against the strongholds of the Order of the Crusaders in Livonia. The Germans concluded a separate peace with the Principality of Polotsk, and the Novgorodians, left alone, were forced to agree to a truce with the order. Contents S. A. Shumov, A. R. Andreev With a sword in hand and a thirst for profit in the heart E. LavissHistory of the Teutonic Order N. F. Narkevich Grünfelde - Tannenberg 1410 Hermann Wartberg Livonian Chronicle N. P. Gratian Order city of Königsberg